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Poem by Linda Lerner

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Returning to Boston a Second Time

I swear I’ve never been backtold you then and I’m telling you now...you too said never...been five years andwe’d found our way backbut not THERE...those narrow brick streetsI saw from a trolley yesterdayin Beacon Hill like the oneyou photographed me onstanding beneath a ‘Do Not Enter Sign’warned of what choicehad already taken from us before your death...as for where I’ve beenthe city’s name...call it coincidencea lie of geography